# Google Cloud Model Armor vs LlamaFirewall (slim)

> Google Cloud Model Armor scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against LlamaFirewall's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LlamaFirewall leads on payments & pricing. Both do guard injection. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Google Cloud Model Armor scores 77.9 (BB) on agent readiness against LlamaFirewall's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. LlamaFirewall leads on payments & pricing. Both do guard injection.

- Google Cloud Model Armor: BB 77.9, rank #16 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-model-armor.min.md
- LlamaFirewall: D 50.8, rank #682 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llamafirewall.min.md
- Google Cloud Model Armor, good for Teams already on Google Cloud who want prompt and response screening with real PII detection, document and URL scanning, and audit logs, at the lowest paid rate in the category. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 53; Schema & documentation, 78 against 49; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 60; Security & auth, 100 against 56; Maintenance & community, 85 against 15; Transparency & trust, 87 against 58. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- LlamaFirewall, good for A Python agent team that wants injection, hidden-character and generated-code checks in process, is willing to pin dependencies or install from main, and can get the gated weights. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 50 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Google Cloud Model Armor | LlamaFirewall |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 49 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 60 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 100 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 15 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 87 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Google Cloud Model Armor | LlamaFirewall |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |
| Vendor | Google Cloud | Meta |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://modelarmor.{location}.rep.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/templates/{template}:sanitizeUserPrompt` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | none | MIT (library). The Prompt Guard 2 weights it downloads are under the Llama 4 Community Licence |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2025-05-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 210k npm/wk, 471k PyPI/wk | 4.4k stars, 1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | none |